• Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    As an outsider it seems like America is a country full of people running around with guns and shooting each other. How does anyone there manage to relax?

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      8 months ago

      The real answer is that most people can not manage to relax, even if just because of financial issues alone.

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      8 months ago

      Eh, there’s pretty bad police violence globally, if we ignore authoritarian countries or poor countries, there’s a fair amount of police violence from the other country that jerks itself off in being a free equal liberal democracy, France.

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        8 months ago

        When I was in France I did see the police being heavy-handed on a few occasions (by UK standards anyway) but there was no routine gun violence and certainly no 18 year olds running around with pistols. The US is unique among developed countries.

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          8 months ago

          It don’t sound developed to me. Ever increasing poverty, hard labour, long hours, no social healthcare, political unrest.